All Simon Van Booy Quotes
- When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even… Another Room
- Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves… Allotted
- There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth Circumstances
- Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things Everyday
- Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. Drinking
- I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if… Accident
- Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Beauty
- It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. Close
- I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn. All
- But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the… Absence
- For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. Chance
- Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. Inspirational
- I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. Book
- We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of… Arms
- Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go. Funny
- Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. Agree
- The present grows within the boundaries of the past. Boundaries
- Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us. From
- Hands have their own language. Hands
- Love requires imagination more than experience. Experience
- It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so… Imagined
- You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the… Excitement
- They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands Hands
- Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them. Adults
- Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else. Anyone